26 Mar
2004
26 Mar
'04
9:07 a.m.
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Antonio Carlini wrote:
> I would think it would work, but I can offer no
guarantees.
Its a rebadged Philips, if it has the round cable for interfacing,
its the same. Philips DID send out units with a different interface,
which used parallel cabling.
I'm not 100% certain but I'm 99% certain that
the RRD40 and RRD50 have
the same (LMSI??) interface. The KRQ50 will work with either. I had an
Yup, the
KRQ50 used LMSI. (LM == LaserMagnetics; the working company
at Philips that did all the optical research at the time.)
RRD50 in my cube for quite a while and a KRQ50 to go
with it but no
interface cable. Pity. The RRD50 had the distinction of being about the
only CDROM drive in the whole history of humanity that could rival an
RRD40 for slowness. (OK, I almost certainly exaggerate, but probably not
by much, and it would have been fun to see).
Its dog-slow, data transfers were
serial.
Still, I'd love to have a KRQ50. Ahwell.
--f